Re: GWindows

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de> writes:

> Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:
>
>> The original rational for GWindows was to be a rational Ada binding to
>> the Microsoft Windows API.
>>
>> Changing that to some other OS/GUI combination would be just wrong.
>
> But not making the GUI lib portable makes it useless for projects
> targeting more than just Windows. 

Obviously.

So if you require portability across platforms, don't use GWindows.

On the other hand, making the GUI lib portable means using only those
features common to all of the targeted platforms.

So if you want your application to be able to take full advantage of
the Win32 API, use GWindows.

>> Which windowing API do you want on Gnu/Linux?
>
> Probably GTK+, because that's what I know from GtkAda :-). 

So use GtkAda on Windows as well. 

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-- Stephe